Advanced Photon Source, Sector 21 - The Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team (LS-CAT) - CAT Member Macromolecular Crystallography

The Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team (LS-CAT) provides Macromolecular Crystallography support to our CAT members from seven Universities in the USA, and General Users. With the one-year dark period approaching for the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source (APS-U), we sought beam time for our CAT Member laboratories at ESRF by way of a Block Allocation Group Proposal, in order to keep supporting their research and ability to secure future funding. LS-CAT has organized our CAT Members (~80 PIs and their laboratory personnel) into this BAG Proposal, and in order to streamline the process for our CAT Members, and for the Staff of Lightsources to which we are applying for access to beam time, only LS-CAT Staff Crystallographers would be collecting and managing the data. Since the APS-U ended, we still find that LS-CAT has much installation and commissioning of new equipment to accomplish, thus we need to continue our BAG proposal with an emphasis on the need for tunable beamlines.